Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

The objective of this science fair project is to determine the rate at which participants can respond to different patterns.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

This science fair project idea raises awareness of a real ecological issue.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.